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For my third artefact I tried to recreate an interactive film using Macromedia Flash 8 using a range of different interactive elements.
Interactive films have become easier to produce since the creation of flash players and higher speed internet connections. I found that the interactive film "the affair" was the most interesting of the different films I studied because it had a range of different interactive elements integrated into its playback and this is what I wanted to recreate.
After attempting to recreate this type of video in Flash 8, almost two weeks passed with no success, I had to admit that this was a failed test due to my lack of knowledge in flash scripting. For the past two years I have been a audio/visual student and I have been focusing on Film work, techniques, software’s, hardware’s and perfecting my speciality and skills in film, by doing so I have lacked knowledge in other areas of the multimedia field, this being online/ interactive environments.
For my fourth artefact I wish to produce a collaborative interactive video with a fellow student studying the online/ interactive environments pathway, the person who has agreed to participate in this experiment is Craig Thomas. I will compare the results we achieve, with the results I gained from my previous artefact. For the next two weeks we will both produce video documentation of our progress and how successful it is to produce an interactive video when the interactive scripting is being written by a specialist in the online/ interactive environments pathway.